I WORE MY GRANDMOTHER’S WEDDING DRESS IN HER HONOR — WHILE ALTERING IT, I FOUND A HIDDEN NOTE THAT REVEALED SOMETHING I

baby, and now he’s gone abroad, and I don’t know how to carry this alone.’

Elise refused to tell me about the baby’s father, and I didn’t press.”

There was a photograph tucked inside the cover.

Billy. My uncle Billy. The man I’d grown up calling uncle, the man who’d bought me a card and $20 for every birthday until he moved back to the city when I was continue reading …